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Effects conditional on a/c status

JonPatch

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Folks, how do make an effect only be visible during taxi? Or during sleep? I would like the following for my AI boats:


----------------Sleep__Pre-Taxi___Taxi___Take-off
Running Lights:--Off------On--------On------Off
Anchor Light:----On------On--------Off------On

Jon
 
Hi Jon,

I think that is impossible. I have never heard of a variable or condition you can check to see if an AI plane is sleeping or not. Maybe you can use some of the variables aircraft designers use, but I am not sure if AI works with them.
 
Hi Arno,

Thanks for the quick reply, as always ... but if that's the case then how come AI Aircraft light up at pre-taxi, turn on landing lights during landing, etc.?

Seems to me this is doable . . .

Jon
 
I think you need to find an aircraft designer then :). You will have to use the techniques used in aircraft then, but I have no idea how they do it exactly.
 
Jon,

There are a bunch of ways to turn things on and off in an aircraft model thanks to the makemdl.parts.xml file. So it is just up to the aircraft modeler to figure out how to build the xml code to make what he wants to work and then put that in the xml file.

Lou
 
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Gotcha, Lou, thanks. That is excellent and useful context.

In this application, I'm hopeful I'm not breaking radical ground. I've benefited a lot from the work of the folks who got AI boats working in the first place, and I'm somewhat obsessesed with adding a little eye candy that other folks can benefit from

Anyhow, I've posted on the AVSIM aircraft design forum to find out how to do this. Worst case I trigger on DAY, NIGHT, etc.

Jon
 
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